PS5 With Disc Drive No Longer Sold at a Loss - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 02 September 2021 / 3,947 Views
Sony Chief Financial Officer Hiroki Totoki during Sony’s recent quarterly earnings call revealed the $499 PlayStation 5 console that comes with a disc drive is no longer sold at a loss.
Totoki did add that the $399 PlayStation 5 Digital Edition is still sold at a loss, however, it is on track to have its loss offset by other hardware sales, such peripherals and the PlayStation 4.
Sony also announced today it had shipped 10.1 million PlayStation 5 consoles as of June 30, 2021. Sony shipped 0.5 million PlayStation 4 consoles for the quarter, to bring lifetime PS4 shipment figures to 116.5 million units.
PS5 sell-through to consumers topped 10 million units as of July 18, 2021, while the PS4 did not reach this milestone until three weeks later.
Thanks, Bloomberg.
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Wow not even a year and they already gaining profits what a monster ps5!
You mentioned on two different articles the total shipment number for PS4 is 116.5M
But then 500k ship units. Till march they were 115.9M. So that makes 116.4M, So lastly what is the total number ?
Interesting. Sony is using PS4 sales to offset the loss on hardware on the PS5 DE, yet they are shipping such a small number of PS4 consoles to market.
Probably not selling that many discless ones, plus the amount of money they make on a $299 PS4, makes up for most of it's losses I'm guessing.
If probably costs them less than $100 to make, package, and ship a PS4 at this point.
Didn't we already know that?
Technically it was only the system that sold at a loss, if you consider the entire initial purchase of a new PS5 owner, extra controller and 1-2 games. Sony was profitable day 1.
